Berserk of Gluttony (Light Novel) Vol. 4 by Ichika Isshiki

Author:Ichika, Isshiki
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
Published: 2021-09-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18:

Bloodthirsty

WITH RAFALE’S TEETH still scraping along the blade of the black sword, I drove him back, straight through the outer wall of the research facility. Then I leaped back to check on Aaron.

“Aaron, are you hurt?”

“I’ll be fine, but I’ve lost a good amount of blood.”

Aaron’s wound was already closing, thanks in large part to his high stats. However, the blood he’d lost made a slick pool on the ground beneath us. A glance at his face told me that he was still weak. Still, he rose to his feet, his eyes zeroed in on Rafale’s direction.

From the wreckage of the outer wall, Rafale sent up a torrential wave of rubble and debris as he reappeared before us, completely healed. We’d burst his head open and impaled him through the heart, but that didn’t matter. We could destroy these vital organs as many times as we liked, and he would still keep moving. He was no longer human but a monster in human skin.

“Is this what Lina would have wanted for you, Rafale?” Aaron called.

“I will not hear it, old man.”

“If in fact she did wish for her own blood, her own son, to become what you have, then my heart aches for you both, Rafale.”

“I said shut it, or else I’ll—gah!”

Rafale suddenly fell to his knees, his breath growing heavy, twitching as though he was struggling to control something inside himself. I knew the feeling well. Rafale looked like I did when I fought Gluttony’s insatiable hunger for souls.

However, when I had fought and then devoured the chimera called Haniel in Galia, I had gained the help of Luna, the girl who had been trapped within that Galian weapon. Thanks to her assistance in controlling the urges of Gluttony, I no longer needed to devour as many souls to keep it satisfied. With her, I could maintain balance. But that was only true until I reached my half-starved state. If I unleashed the entirety of my Gluttony, I would regress back into the starved berserker I had become when I fought the Divine Dragon in Galia.

In the ashes of that fight, my soul had been saved because Lady Roxy had chosen to reach out and rescue me from the brink. I had decided never to rely on that power again. If I fell to the starving depths of true Gluttony a second time, the one I would hunger for the most would be none other than Lady Roxy herself.

Luna had called Lady Roxy my bastion. But that bastion existed only as a sacrifice to quell the urges of my Gluttony. The prospect alone terrified me.

In the shivering Rafale that stood before me, I sensed the same struggle. The same grappling for control.

“Damn it all to hell! Not now, not…again…” Rafale reached up and frantically scratched his forehead as if something fought to release itself from his skin. Then he reached down and grabbed two vials filled with red liquid from a small case strapped to his thigh. He drank them down in one gulp.

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